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Windows 7 Home Premium, Catalyst Control Center.

Without any apparent reason, after booting my PC, I got this little balloon "HD 4600 Drivers updated". I did not install any new cards or drivers or anything.

But now, when I try to select an entire word by pressing Ctrl + Shift + ← / → my screen flips left to right and upside down.

Where can I disable this annoying shortcut?

OR

Any other way of selecting the entire word?

There is no option for this in Catalyst Control Center.

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If you've found a solution then please post an answer (yes, to your own question, it's perfectly acceptable)! In the meantime, I've added a community wiki post that contains the information you provided, feel free to add and accept your own answer post with further details if you wish and I shall delete me CW placeholder. – DMA57361♦ Jun 29 '11 at 9:33
How often do we press this combination a day? I mean, no offense but don't press them! – LordCover Jun 29 '11 at 10:14
I think I (and tens of thousands of programmers and developers around the world with me) press this combination maybe 2 or 3 hundred times a day. It is the only way to select the entire word infront of the cursor. – nizzle Jun 30 '11 at 7:54
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Information provided by the asker in a question edit:

Killing a program called "SoftOSM" prevents the shortcut from causing the screen to flip.

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you can often select a word by doubleclicking on it, triple clicking to select a whole paragraph. You can also allegedly (i run intel and nvidia mostly) change the key combo from ATI catalyst control center.

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I am a software developer and I cannot use my mouse for this. Thanks though. – nizzle Jun 29 '11 at 8:42
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you display hotkeys are enabled , right click on the desktop , the context menu should have an option to disable it , else go to your graphics cards control panel and disable it

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There is no hotkeys option in the context menu, I cannot find this option in Catalyst control center. – nizzle Jun 29 '11 at 8:43
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